Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 226
her temples. One of these,whose foundations are now overflowed by the sea, is theso-called Sempeum, or Temple of Serapis, which formerlyconsisted of a large quadrangular atrium, surrounded in-ternally by a portico of forty-eight columns, and enclos-ing a small circular temple. Of the columns still… … Temple of Jupiter Serapis, Puleoli. since their erection, has undergone some remarkablechanges of level* Whether the edifice was actually atemple may well be doubted ; more probably, it onlycovered the mineral spring which rises within it, and wasfrequented by valetudinarians in search of health,…
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